Your travel setup, your input?

[kknox]

Im taking a trip to Washington DC. Have way to many cameras and not enough time. Debating on just taking a Leica M262 w/35 1.4, 24 2.8 & 75 2.5. This would be an easy travel setup. I also have a XT-2 Fuji with an 18-55, I can use the fuji for low light & video if needed. Or I could also take along my M2 and some HP-5 and share the lens.

Just take the Leica setup or both the Leica and Fuji. I enjoy shooting the Leica system much more.

 

[ktmrider]

Take the Leica (digital or film is your choice). I travel with 35/90 so your 35/75 combo would be similar. When I shot professionally back in the 1970's, I carried two Nikon F's with a 24 on one and an 85 on the other. Some will say that is too much of a gap but it could work.

DC is a great city. I spent lots of time there during 33 years as a federal employee. Use the Metro and have comfortable walking shoes. A car is a pain in the rear. Plan on spending at least one day in your favorite Smithsonian.

And you might throw a small tripod into your kit. Most of the monuments are well light and crowds disappear at sunset.

 

[gavinlg]

1x camera, 1x 35mm lens. If you can't take good photos with a leica and 35mm lens, you aren't going to take good photos with several lenses/cameras or a zoom lens.

 

[kknox]

Thanks that’s for all the input. One camera and one lens is what I was thinking. Done that before, but have never been to DC, was thinking the Fuji for videos.

 

[Hogarth Ferguson]

Going to Italy next week, first time ever doing one camera, one lens. Hasselblad 501c/80mm and bergger pancro 400.

I, too, think you should do one camera one lens. DC is pretty good, but you can do it with that setup.

 

[narsuitus]

My Leica travel setup is:
Leica M10
Leica M6
21mm f/1.4 with accessory finder
35mm f/1.4
90mm f/2

My Leica/Fuji travel setup is:
Leica M10
21mm f/1.4 with accessory finder
35mm f/1.4
Fuji X-Pro1
50-140mm f/2.8 Fuji telephoto

 

[back alley]

mine...

2 fuji xe3 bodies with 16/1.4...23/1.4...56/1.2
or
2 fuji xe3 bodies with 18/2...23/2...35/2...50/2

all fits into a domke f6 with room for extras

 

[michaelwj]

My travel setup is always one lens one body, typically a 35mm or thereabouts. I use my phone for video and happy snaps (and as a phone).

I wouldn't take a second system for video but that's just me. If you want to take the Fuji for video, then use it for stills too and leave the Leica at home. Keep it simple.

 

[Mute-on]

My only rule is one lens per camera. Changing lenses is one step too far when you are trying to enjoy an experience, and not just take photos of it.

I shoot film with 28 on MP and taking 50 on M2 for the next trip. Last trip I had a 35 on the M2.

In your shoes I’d take the 24 on the 262 and 35 on the M2.

If you only want to carry one body, it’s the 262/M2 with the 35 and enjoy the trip!

 

[Richard G]

Leica (Monochrom for preference) 50 Summicron and 28 2.8 ASPH.
For colour: Fuji X100.
If it’s a work trip and busy: just the X100.

So I’d take your 24 with the 262 as you’ll be sorry indoors not to have it.

 

[raid]

It depends on duration of trip, how special the travel destination is, planned activities during the trip.

1. light: I take 2 Olympus M 4/3 camera and 2 small Leica or Zeiss lenses.
2. short trip but nice destination: one Leica M and one small lens.
3. longer trip and a special destination: Hasselblad SWC plus Leica M9 and one lens.

If it is a very short trip and nothing special expected: iPhone will do.

In your case, I would keep things light for you so that you make it easier on yourself to enjoy walking around in DC.

 

[Deleted member 65559]

I usually take one camera and a lens or two (if interchangeable). But out shooting it's 1:1 and the other lens is in the hotel. Northern Italy a couple of mountain trips with Rolleiflex or Fuji GW680iii, New Mexico with the Rolleiflex (come to think of it....done that one with only the Deardorff 5x7 too), recently back country skiing in Japan MP with a 21/35. The new travel rig is the '34 iii D with the CV 28. Most often i'll go bigger than 35....since I like the tonal range of printing from bigger negatives.

 

[robert blu]

If you have not a special project or idea in your mind you'll have the best results keeping it simple: one camera, one lens which in my opinion should be the 35.

This allows you to concentrate more on the subject with no thinking about which lens to use and as side effect but not negligible will make your trip easier!

robert

 

[ptpdprinter]

The Fuji duplicates the focal lengths of the Leica system and you prefer shooting the Leica. No need to take the Fuji unless you really think you are going to do video or low light.

 

[helen.HH]

Keep it light, keep it Simple

 

[WJJ3]

I also like the 21-35-90 set for travel, but I don't like having to change lenses while I'm out and about shooting, so I carry these three lenses each mounted on their own body 🙂

 

[Hogarth Ferguson]

My usual setup consists of my GF670w and another camera or two.

Train across China and Russia and Mongolia? GF670w, GF670, and 6x14.
Myanmar? 501cm with an 80mm and my GF670w
Amtrak and Alaska? GF670w and 501cm with 80mm and 150mm

The gf670w always goes with me, with the exception this trip this week.

 

[Rob-F]

For D.C. I took: Leica M8.2 (today it would be the M9); M7; 21mm ASPH; 28mm ASPH; 35mm ASPH; and 50/2. I may have brought the 75, I don't recall. Plus a D-Lux 4. It all fit in my Domke F6 and I used it all and was glad I had it! I shot in the National air & Space museum both the one on the mall and the one at the airport, where the space shuttle is. And some outdoor shots on the Mall, but it was late December, too cold to spend much time outdoors.

 

[Godfrey]

On my last trip to Cork, Ireland and the Isle of Man, I carried the Leica M-D, Summicron-M 50mm f/2, and Summilux 35mm f/1.4 v2. I think I made six exposures total with the 35mm and the rest with the 50mm, for a total of 295 exposures in all.

There were possibly two occasions when I might have taken another photo if I had my 75 or 90 with me. Three lenses is the most I'll carry, however ... the days of carrying four or more lenses I left behind a decade ago.

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Im taking a trip to Washington DC. Have way to many cameras and not enough time. Debating on just taking a Leica M262 w/35 1.4, 24 2.8 & 75 2.5. This would be an easy travel setup. I also have a XT-2 Fuji with an 18-55, I can use the fuji for low light & video if needed. Or I could also take along my M2 and some HP-5 and share the lens.

Just take the Leica setup or both the Leica and Fuji. I enjoy shooting the Leica system much more.

 

[Brooklynguy]

I recently came back from London. I went through the following process:

1. family or photography trip? Family for me, so I wanted something with auto-everything mode for family shots--this eliminated the Leicas and Nikons.
2. size/weight: if photo trip, image quality is priority; otherwise, size/weight/comfort/portability. Latter for me, as this was family trip. This eliminated the full frame (and DX) DSLRs.
3. Lens range? I prefer UW zoom for travel, and fast wides for interior low-light.
4. video: if desired, mirrorless please. Nikon's implementation is complicated, requiring a switch and button to get video (Leica M240 is even less effective due to the nature of the camera).

For London, I started Nikon/Leica M combo but finalized with m43: 2 bodies (EM1 and EP5), with the Oly 12/17 primes and the Pany 7-14/35-100 zooms (used mostly 7-14 and 17, one on each body). Small bag, easy to manage in airport/plane/etc. Stuff fit in my coat pockets (EP5/17) or small bag. Full frame equivalents would have meant Domke F2 or similar; Leica M would not work b/c no full auto mode (as much as I used it in my past DC trip and produced beautiful images). Hope this helps.